Sunday, July 5, 2015

At around 10:30 pm SLT, on June 30, City Inside Out had
vanished. It’s always very hard to see an exhibit disappear. While dismantling
the installation over a two day period, I had taken the advice of some friends
who suggested saving it. This meant linking the parts of an enormous build. The
last two days then, was uncompromisingly busy. To compound the challenge, the
last day happened to fall on a Tuesday, when SL performs its maintenance. My Edit
window was powerless against the oddities occurring all around me. I logged in
and out to try again and again. The work had to be finished no matter what,
even during this unfriendly storm of malfunctions. Around midday things had
calmed down, and I could keep working uninterrupted by the server’s glitches.

I don’t know if the exhibit will ever be rezzed again, but I
did make a tour of the city which includes most of the parts of the city, as
well as the stories people wrote for PHASE 2 of the exhibit, about their
observations of homelessness.